Award 2021
Welcome to the Social Art Award 2021 – Online Gallery!
We are grateful for the many inspiring contributions from artists around the world. The selected works reflect a broad spectrum of contemporary social art practices and explore new relationships between humans, nature, and technology. They address themes such as ecological regeneration, climate justice, sustainable futures, social resilience, and more-than-human perspectives.
Below you will find the submissions from the Social Art Award 2021 – New Greening edition that passed the initial jury round. The Online Gallery offers public visibility to these works and encourages dialogue around their ideas and approaches; it does not replace the final jury decision.
Thank you to all artists for sharing your visionary and committed work. We invite you to explore the gallery and engage with the perspectives shaping New Greening.
Redwood Cabinet
Madeline von Foerster
Approximately 95% of the original ancient coastal redwood forest has been logged. Incredibly, 82% of redwoods lack protection today, and may be logged. The plants and animals shown here all depend on old-growth redwood forests for their survival. My painting, partly based on the research of botanist Steven Sillet, is a visual altar to this ecosystem. It includes some of his discoveries from the forest canopy, such as an arboreal salamander who never touches the ground, and microscopic freshwater crabs who survive in the damp detritus which accumulates over centuries on the tree branches.
Approximately 95% of the original ancient coastal redwood forest has been logged. Incredibly, 82% of redwoods lack protection today, and may be logged. The plants and animals shown here all depend on old-growth redwood forests for their survival. My painting, partly based on the research of botanist Steven Sillet, is a visual altar to this ecosystem. It includes some of his discoveries from the forest canopy, such as an arboreal salamander who never touches the ground, and microscopic freshwater crabs who survive in the damp detritus which accumulates over centuries on the tree branches.